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title: "4 Knower Known Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meister-eckhart/the-knower-and-the-known-are-one-simple-people-imagine-that-they/)

[Meister Eckhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meister-eckhart/)

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> [God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maimonides/god-is-identical-with-his-attributes-so-that-it-may-be-said-that-he/)

[Maimonides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maimonides/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e4/maimonides-2639_attributes_god-is-identical-with-his-attributes-so_1118093.png)

> [“knowledge depends on the mode of the knower; for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/knowledge-depends-on-the-mode-of-the-knower-for-what-is-known-is-in/)

[Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/)

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> [Include the knower in the known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-jaynes/include-the-knower-in-the-known/)

[Julian Jaynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-jaynes/)

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